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Giuliana Nenni

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Giuliana Nenni
Member of the Senate of the Republic
In office
12 June 1958 – 4 June 1968
ConstituencyEmilia Romagna
Member of the Chamber of Deputies
In office
8 May 1948 – 11 June 1958
ConstituencyBologna
Personal details
Born26 December 1911
Forlì,Kingdom of Italy
Died19 March 2002(2002-03-19)(aged 90)
Rome, Italy
Political partyItalian Socialist Party
Parents
OccupationJournalist

Giuliana Nenni(26 December 1911 – 19 March 2002) was an Italian journalist and politician. She served in the Italian Parliament and Senate for the Italian Socialist Party. She was known as the sister of all Romagna’s women.[1]

Early life and education[edit]

Giuliana Nenni was born inForlìon 26 December 1911.[2]She was the eldest daughter ofPietro Nenni,leader of the Italian Socialist Party, and Carmen Emiliani.[3][4]Her father was in prison when Giuliana was born.[3]She had a sister, Luciana, who was ten years younger of her.[5]

When her family was in exile in Paris from 1926 Nenni attended the courses on French civilization at theSorbonne University.[3]

Career and activities[edit]

Nenni edited a socialist newspaper entitledPopulairein Paris.[3]She joined the Italian Socialist Party in 1934.[3]She and her family returned to Italy after theFascist ruleended in 1943.[3]In 1944 she involved in the establishment of a leftist resistance movement in Rome, Unione Donne Italiane (UDI).[6]She was a member of the Italy-USSR association which was established by the Italian Socialist Party and theItalian Communist Partyin 1949.[7]

In 1948 Nenni was elected to the Italian Parliament for the Italian Socialist Party fromBologna[8]and also, served at the Parliament for the next term.[2]She became a member of the Italian Senate in 1958 and served there for two successive terms.[2]In June 1958 the socialist deputy Luigi Sansone presented a proposal to introduce a divorce law to the Senate in collaboration with Giuliana Nenni which was not supported by the Senate.[9]From 1968 Nenni began to work as the private secretary of her father, Pietro Nenni.[3]

Following the death of Pietro Nenni in January 1980 his daughters, Giuliana and Luciana, established the Pietro Nenni Foundation.[5]

Personal life and death[edit]

Nenni was not married and had no children.[5]She died in Rome on 19 March 2002.[3]

Electoral history[edit]

Election House Constituency Party Votes Result
1948 Chamber of Deputies Bologna–Ferrara–Ravenna–Forlì FDP 40,871 checkYElected
1953 Chamber of Deputies Bologna–Ferrara–Ravenna–Forlì PSI 13,086 checkYElected
1958 Senate of the Republic Emilia-Romagna–Ferrara PSI 27,426 checkYElected
1963 Senate of the Republic Emilia-Romagna–Ferrara PSI 25,195 checkYElected

Source:[10]

References[edit]

  1. ^Molly Tambor (2010). "Red Saints: Gendering the Cold War, Italy 1943–1953".Cold War History.10(3): 430.doi:10.1080/14682745.2010.494299.S2CID153830225.
  2. ^abc"Giuliana Nenni"(in Italian). Italian Senate.Retrieved1 February2022.
  3. ^abcdefgh"Donne e Uomini della Resistenza: Giuliana Nenni".ANPI(in Italian). Archived fromthe originalon 25 October 2020.Retrieved1 February2022.
  4. ^Molly Tambor (2014).The Lost Wave: Women and Democracy in Postwar Italy.Oxford:Oxford University Press.p. 25.ISBN978-0-19-937824-1.
  5. ^abc"E'Morta Giuliana Nenni (2)".Adnkronos(in Italian). 19 March 2002. Archived fromthe originalon 1 February 2022.Retrieved1 February2022.
  6. ^Wendy Pojmann (Spring 2005). "Emancipation or Liberation?: Women's Associations and the Italian Movement".The Historian.67(1): 76.JSTOR24452873.
  7. ^Virgile Cirefice (2017)."Celebrating the October Revolution? A Socialist Dilemma: France, Italy, 1945-1956"(PDF).Twentieth Century Communism.13(13): 8.doi:10.3898/175864317822165077.
  8. ^"Nenni, Giuliana"(in Italian). Italian Parliament.Retrieved1 February2022.
  9. ^Mark Seymour (2010). "Steel Capsules and Discursive Monopolies. «Noi donne» and Divorce in Italy, 1945-1965".Storicamente.6:8.doi:10.1473/stor77.
  10. ^L'Archivio

External links[edit]

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